Documentary

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"Documentary" in a Sentence (15 examples)

I don't watch a lot of movies, but I can't resist a good documentary.

The danger of AIDS came home to me when I saw a documentary film on it last night.

That documentary about the environmental crisis was a real eye-opener.

The documentary was narrated by Morgan Freeman.

The documentary is meant to raise consciousness about the plight of the poor.

In the documentary, CNN explores how the royal family has supported their latest member as she finds her feet.

I have to watch this documentary.

I'm watching a documentary.

I will watch a documentary.

I watched a documentary.

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a documentary film

Just as there is a tradition of history painting, so there is one of history photographs — which of course are not documentary. They're posed as the world was supposed to be.

Fifteen documentaries are in sharp-elbowed competition to be among the five Oscar nominees.

If you watched Victoria Beckham’s lavishly produced Netflix documentary last October, you might have wondered why it didn’t even glance on the biggest elephant in Brand Beckham’s room[…]. But most big documentaries these days aren’t documentaries any more in the way previous practitioners of the craft might have understood the word. As her husband’s was before it, Victoria’s doc was a self-commissioned advertorial on which the subject also served as executive producer.

Such sequences draw attention to the affective appeals that environmental documentary typically makes, precisely by absenting those appeals.

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